QUOTE(solnavo @ Oct 19 2011, 03:08 PM)
everton now got another new talent after rodwell, ross barkley. i really hope kenny will give the youngsters chance to play in competitive matches... i'm hoping to see raheem sterling,andy wisdom and conor coady to get some playing times...
We have to consider that it's more likely for local products to come through when your club is cash strapped as Everton is. I'm doubtful if either will feature regularly for a top side.
As for taking the piss out of our friendly against Rangers, any organism with some semblance of intellect would have noted the following :-
1) It was a friendly. Why risk injury with a game looming this weekend?
2) It featured mostly fringe players or those returning from injury.
3) It was two clubs coming together to raise funds for two disasters at Hillsborough and Ibrox, not a Champions League match. Anyone who criticises the nature of this match is either ignorant, or disrespecting the lives that were lost, or both.
All things said and done, it isn't even an argument I'd bother getting into. If we had won, they'd have used the same reasons I gave above against us. Always helps to be able to predict the outcome of an argument even before it begins.